The unique packaging uses water-based boards, linings, inks and coatings and a crystal-clear window made from 100% corn starch and is completely bio-degradable in around 14 weeks.

Top student

NORTH Wales graduate Heledd Charles-Williams has won the Best Chemical Engineering Student prize at the UK-wide 2004 Science, Engineer and Technology Student of the Year Awards.

Ms Charles-Williams, 23, was head girl at Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni before studying chemical engineering and Spanish at Sheffield university and Asturias, Spain.

A first class honours MEng chemical engineering graduate, she was selected to represent Sheffield at the 2004 science awards. She now works for the Kerry Group at Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire.

Stronger links

THE North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham has opened Newi Enterprise, a new department dedicated to strengthening industrial links, providing support to enterprises and encouraging entrepreneurship amongst students and staff and the wider community.